T.D. Pointer: A string of Super prognostications

Thursday

Pointer loves to bowl. What T.D. loves even more than bowling, however, is watching his local high school football teams compete in Super Bowls

Pointer loves to bowl.

I know — it’s a shocker.

But there is nothing like knocking over a few candlepins, slugging back some cheap beverages, and stinking up some fashionably ugly shoes.

What Pointer loves even more than bowling, however, is watching his local high school football teams compete in Super Bowls.

And this weekend, T.D. gets two days of Super Bowl action with Lincoln-Sudbury competing on Friday (7:30 p.m.), while Millis (1:30 p.m.) and Valley Tech (6 p.m.) play on Saturday at Gillette Stadium in their respective state title games.

So, while I may make a few pit stops at Splitsville Luxury Lanes in Patriot Place to bowl, the real reason I’ll be in Foxboro is to catch three separate Super Bowls.

Let’s start with the first game featuring one of our local teams.

Lincoln-Sudbury (11-0) is playing King Philip (11-0) in the Division 2 Super Bowl on Friday.

It’s the first Super Bowl appearance for L-S since 2011, when the Warriors (King Philip is also known as the Warriors, so let’s keep it to school names from here-on-out for this contest) lost to Everett in the Division 1A state championship game.

T.D. is known for taking scrupulous notes out of the history books at the local library — so get ready for Pointer to throw some ancient and recent history your way.

The last time L-S won a Super Bowl was pre-Y2K, when it beat Mansfield by a score of 18-6 in the Div. 3 Super Bowl in 1989.

This year, L-S averaged a tad over 42 points a game on offense while allowing just under 14 points a contest on defense.

Friday’s showdown with King Philip will be Tom Lopez’s eighth super bowl appearance (wow) as the 40-year L-S coach possesses a 3-4 overall record in state championship games.

Not a bad mark for Lopez, who is six wins away from 300 career victories.

Unfortunately for Lopez and L-S, King Philip has won 24 straight games.

King Philip is also the reigning Division 1A Super Bowl champs after beating Reading — the team that beat L-S one game earlier in the Div. 1A North sectional — at Gillette Stadium last December.

Hope you enjoyed your history lesson.

Anyway, sledding will be tough for L-S on Friday, but Pointer doesn’t see King Philip slowing down the three-headed rushing juggernaut of quarterback Braden O’Connell and running backs James Dillon and Andrew Marshall.

Rumor has it that the Hoosac coach likes to run up the score — putting up 76 points in a 42-point win over Nashoba Tech in the Div. 8 state semifinals. Another rumored report says Hoosac’s usual Thanksgiving Day opponent — Drury — opted not to play the Hurricanes on Turkey Day this year due to a 66-6 pouncing last season.

But those are just rumors.

One fact about Saturday’s matchup is the Mohawks are the defending Division 4A Super Bowl champs.

Latosek has thrown 32 touchdown passes this year, and a total of 62 TD tosses over the past two seasons. Last year, the then-junior QB led the Mohawks to a 30-18 win over Maynard in a state title game.

With the return of senior Kurt Hopkins to the offensive fray after a dislocated elbow kept him out of action for a few weeks, Pointer picks Millis to take home a second straight state.

With 4.5 hours between the start of Millis’ and Valley Tech’s games, T.D. can mosey over to Splitsville for a few strings before taking in the Beavers’ Division 7 Super Bowl showdown with Mashpee.

The Falcons are the defending Div. 4 Super Bowl champs, while the Beavers last won a state championship in 2012.

What a great story it would be if Valley Tech (11-1) could upset undefeated Mashpee (12-0) on Saturday.

I mean, senior quarterback Reece Hendriks thought he was out for the season when he broke his collarbone in mid-October.

Yet, a procedure to fuse a steel rod to his collarbone allowed the Valley Tech signal-caller to return a lot sooner than anticipated.

Pointer is mighty impressed by Hendriks’ comeback.

Also, a Valley Tech assistant coach is battling cancer.

So the Beavers have a lot to play for.

But Pointer sees Valley Tech needing to pull off an epic comeback in this Super Bowl as T.D. thinks Mashpee will be just too much for the Beavers.

Win, lose, or draw (not happening), Pointer has been pleased with the play of these three teams all season long.

And if you guys aren’t pleased with my picks (see record below) then I don’t know what to tell ya.

Happy Super Bowl weekend!

Last week: 13-3

Season: 164-63

T.D. Pointer is like Santa Claus. He is both everyone and no one.

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